User:Georgewilliamherbert/MaruQuotes

This is a direct copy from: [], which Maru has asked to be deleted, but which I think is worthwhile holding on to.

This is a page for simply holding onto good quotes, preferably Wikipedia-related. Suggestions welcome!

The curse of Wikipedia

 * If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. (Thomas De Quincey)

The Measure of a Man
From http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AEssjay&diff=29618083&oldid=29617746:
 * Won't you at least consider working on your wikibio so a record can be made of what you accomplished and why you left? -JCarriker 19:54, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Put "He did a few things, made a few friends, and left when he couldn't take crying over what was happening to the people he cared so much about." I think that about sums it up. -- Essjay ·   Talk 19:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

On the Trustworthiness of Papadiabolous
Ethical philosophy question:


 * Q- Why does the devil keep his deals?
 * A- Because as an immortal he has an infinite time horizon of other deals he jeopardizes if he betrays any given deal. Therefore the opportunity cost is too high.

--Oldman (RIP)
 * Q- What does that make politicians then?
 * A- Lower in ethical reliability than the devil.

Current events

 * Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
 * ~Juvenal, Satires, VI 347

The guardians

 * Anittas: Boni, this is not the way to write in an encyclopedia ... WTF is that? And put back the infobox where it belongs!
 * Bonaparte: I don't edit at all...
 * Anittas: You have gone mad! You are editing right now as we speak. You just edited it again! Revert it back to my version! Your version sucks!...

The Epitome
~John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
 * A man so various, that he seem'd to be
 * Not one, but all mankind's epitome:
 * Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;
 * Was every thing by starts, and nothing long;
 * But, in the course of one revolving moon,
 * Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon:
 * Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,
 * Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.

The curse redux
"ignazz, I am truly korrupted by yore sinful tzourceware. -jb"

The Greeks

 * ChrisBradley : Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. -Socrates
 * silsor : ChrisBradley, that could be rewritten for us - Employ your time in improving other men's writings.

Quaint and Curious Volumes of Forgotten Lore
"Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about them the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection, with all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem." --William Pietri

The horror
"the problem with wikipedia is that it works in practice, but not in theory." -geekoid

Fubar Obscuro

 * Thanks :). "Just because the Gregorian calendar doesn't have one does not mean that a SW calendar must lack one" - of course. -Xol 03:00, 9 April 2006 (UTC)